Improved clothes-drier



iittitd tapes @anni @with HENRY soHRYV Leners-Patent N 102,717, dated Mag/ 3, 1870.

IMPROVE!) CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ci the sme To all whom. Ait may concern l Be it known that I, HENRY SoHnYvEn, of Kingston, inthe county of Ulster and State of' New `York,

have invented certain Improvements in Clothes-Racks, of which the following is a specitieaton, reference heing had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to clothes-racks; and consists in the novel construction, hing-ing, and pivoting of a number of rectangular frames, so that they may be extended or folded, as desired, and supported by two of them, as hereinafter explained.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view oi' my rack extended, and

Figure 2 foided.

In construct-ing my clothes-rack I makey a Apair 'of rectangular' frames A, with a series of cross-bars, a, and hinge them together at the upper ends of their side pieces.

To these frames A, I pivot, at b, sidepieces B hinged at their lower ends, andA connected by crossbars c; and to the upper ends of the side pieces B I pivot, at d, :mother pair of rectangular frames, C, with cross-bars, c, and hinged at their upper ends, as clearly shown in both figures. The frames A' and C consist simply of side pieces and cross-bars, and are is an cud viewv of the same, closed or of the same width, as clearly shown in fi'g. l. The side pieces B are pivoted to the outside of both pairs of `frames, as clearly shown in both figures.

The frames and side pieces are of such. relative size that, when pivoted and hinged together,.as above described, the whole may be operated as follows:

Asthe lower endsof theft-ames A are extended,

the lower ends of the frames() are in like manner extended, and this extension ma'y be continued until the frames G are horizontal, with their inner hinged ends resting upon the upper hinged ends ot' t-he frames A, as clearly shown in ti". 1, so that the frames C may be set at different angles, as desired.

. When the rack is not in use it may be folded up, as shown in tig.`2,"and, thus folded .up orfclosed, it occupies, comparatively, butasmall compass, and can lbe readily stored away.

Having thus described my invention,

Vhat I claim is-T A clothes-rack, consisting of the rectangular frames A and C and side pieces B,- when constructed, hinged, and pivoted, as herein described, and arranged to operate as set forth.

' HENRY SCHRYVER.

1 Witnesses:

D. W. SPARLING, J. DEY'O CHIPP.`

EN, or KINGSTON, NEW YORK, AssteN'oR Tov mMsnLr AND J. pero entrez-or SAME PLACE. n 

